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[classical]

Had a wee chat with our tattooed man. Essentially, he says we must:

1) Be wary of, hrm, pulling down the curtain and exposing the great and the terrible Oz, as he put it. Annabel Lee does not actually point to him; rather, it is a 'very clever rabbit hole' that, he says, will lead to something that will prevent us from completing our tasks at the Brightman and/or destroy the game as we know it. So finding out who's 'did all this' would be a Very Bad Idea.
(Gee, where have I heard this before? 'Don't contact the writer', my ass.)

2) Learn to spot those with malicious intent--spotting the elil, if you will.

3) Listen to Randall. Which is easier said than done, considering we all have no idea wtf he's talking about.

That, and Port is still alive and apparently misses me? Hahah.

[ironnikki]

Hrm. So the whole poem thing was just another gamejack? Oh well, at least it gave us something to do while we wait for the 15th to roll around. Which, by the way, we now have a specific time for the feeds to come back up: 2300 PST. I don't think that was there before. So... looks like we have been given fair warning to keep our schedules open, if possible.

[classical]

In a meta-y sense, I think, more or less, it amounts to us players having a choice where we take this game: we can either follow the party that says to do one thing, or we can follow the party that says not to do that thing. We're at a crossroad; there will be different results either way. It simply amounts to who we put our trust into.

Despite my curiousity, I am more inclined to trust our friend Rage than the man who reeks suspisiously of Agency. :B And I dunno about the rest of you, but playing the blame game and pointing fingers seems a little ...pointless? at this point. We pretty much have our tasks set with the GPS thing and all; it's not as if knowing who's behind this mess would really help us.
I mean, we COULD follow that rabbit hole, but we apparently will derail the main point of this game in the process. If we really want to know who 'did all this', I have a feeling that Rage or the Watchers already know and could be persuaded to share later, anyway.

And man, that is like one in the morning for me, and I work the next day. |D For this game, I will sacrifice my sleep!

[ironnikki]

Seconded. Rage is the only one who we've maintained communication with for more than a week, and he seems to share the same goals as us. Plus, I'm way more interested in seeing this game to the end, wherever that may be, than I am in throwing a wrench in the gears.

And that's one in the morning for me too. Luckily, I'm still awake around that time anyway.

[classical]

Hahahah, oh dear.
I got an email from our friend Rich Adams (the one with the string of numbers as an email address). It just said this

[ironnikki]

Haha, looks like you've got some stalkers, classical! Only these stalkers have been professionally trained and possibly licensed to kill.

In any case, I'm wondering what we should make of this. After all, you get an email telling you that you're never safe, and not to be obvious, with a memo from the CIA attached that details your involvement with uF. Do you guys think it may be time to find an alternate method of communication? That would be rather annoying, but if we can't make plans here without being spied on, it may be necessary.

Also, I'm guessing that the other paper is an earlier forum post? I made out "I suppose I can tweet some useless updates along the trip just so y'all don't think I got kidnapped or something."

[paperbound]

Just popping in to let you know I'm still alive. It was an entertaining but relatively uneventful trip to San Diego (unless you consider accidentally stalking actor Mark Valley eventful - the guy is GORGEOUS in person and he was staying in the same hotel as me - and crying when I got to meet Ray Bradbury).

Now it's time to play catch up here! Face it - you've all missed my completely random and oftentimes useless input.

[classical]

[3v1L Schwinn]

http://www.1407oakhurst.info/
We have a change. It looks like the system came up early

[classical]

Hmm.

- the white dotted line corresponds to the Estero de Americano Creek.

- the Valley Ford dot looks like it's directly over this farmhouse... there's really not much else out in that area, so. Yeah.

- the two white dots near the coast are over a golf course... could correspond to some house on the course specifically, but I'm not really sure. It really looks like one is at least pointing at the clubhouse. And the yellow dot appears to be a marina? Maybe?

- as for what the white thing in the middle of the ocean is, no clue. Other than it might just be our location for the Brightman. There is a cluster of rocks/tiny islands off the head of Bodega Bay, but it doesn't match up with this dot.

[3v1L Schwinn]

[ironnikki]

Good catch guys. Everything that has been mentioned so far matches up pretty well. The only thing that I can think of so far that the spot in the ocean could signify would be the Brightman. But why are the other spots on the map marked as well? I don't see how they tie into anything that we've seen so far, unless they're just benchmarks.

EDIT: Now that I think more about it, I thought that the spiral that we saw on the previous feed was the Brightman? Wulf seemed pretty sure about that. Unfortunately, I lacked the foresight to save the image so that we could refer to it later. I'm not sure how it matches up with this one, but I remember that the spiral was on the coast of Bodega Bay, not inland at all.

[ironnikki]

Um... guys... we may have a problem...

http://1407oakhurst.info/ no longer has our map, and now has a new message: system failure//abortcode7TN

Checked the source, didn't see anything. Looks like we may need a new plan...

[classical]

Hum. I'm not so sure that means the end for our current plan. I'm gonna hold out for August 15th; if it passes without a change, then there will be need for a Plan B (or Plan M, or Plan Z, or whatever plan we're on now, haha).

[3v1L Schwinn]

New changes with the GPS feed...